click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Science Chapter 3
Plate Tectonicts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Continental drift | The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface. |
| Pangaea | The name of a single land mass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise today's continents. |
| fossil | The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. |
| Mid-ocean ridge | An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary. |
| deep-ocean trench | A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle. |
| sea-floor spreading | |
| subduction |